Would-Be Attendee Fails to Crash Levi's Fader Fort, Robs It At Gunpoint Instead

According to police, after Leandre Darryl Campbell was unable to get into the Fort, the 24-year-old pulled out a semi-automatic handgun from his pants and pointed it at a female employee working in the Levi's pop-up store. Campbell then grabbed two pairs of jeans and fled. Evidently not content with his initial catch, he returned mere moments later to add another pair of jeans to his bounty.

Authorities easily tracked him down as a witness was able to catch his license plate information. Campbell now faces a first-degree felony charge of aggravated robbery.

After the jump: wild speculation.

Some basic Google searching turns up a rather interesting possible backstory for the Monday afternoon incident: LinkedIn shows a "Leandre Campbell" from Houston who runs a marketing outfit called Soul Phunk. The Myspace page of the 24-year-old owner of this company, which he last logged in to on Monday, claims "Cornerstone Promotion" as one of his past employers—Cornerstone being the other half of the company that includes Fader Magazine and the primary folks behind the Fort.

Assuming the two Campbells are one and the same (the odds of this not being the case are pretty slim), Campbell might have been more than just an anonymous guest who failed to crash the Fort—a disgruntled ex-employee perhaps, or someone who was banned from the venue altogether.